The Hinkley Hilton

Today in Supreme Court History: April 25, 1938

Open Thread

The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here’s what the art world of the 1990s looked like

The Force and the Flower: Poet and Potter M.C. Richards on Creativity

A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

Guitar Hero

Michael Harrison (1958 – 2026) Contemporary Classical Composer

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation

Sunday Poem

Bill Otis (Ringside at the Reckoning) on the SPLC Indictment

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Today in Supreme Court History: April 21, 1800

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell

Friday Poem

The Race to Find Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA Just Took a Major Twist

On The Art Of Carol Bove

In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms

How Cacti Defy Darwin

Iran Is One More Humiliation for J. D. Vance

California Promised to Reduce Wildfire Risks. It’s Fallen Short.